Month: October 2019

TUESDAY, OCT 15, 2019: The Gasfield Free South West Alliance has expressed deep concern at Bunbury Energy’s decision to begin aerial gravity surveys over the South West this week. The company is looking for sources of gas. The surveys will cover parts of the shires of Capel, Dardanup and Donnybrook-Balingup in an 800km long grid pattern over farms, urban areas […]

MONDAY, OCT, 14, 2019: Plans for a new federally funded round of shale oil exploration in northern WA could see a massive expansion of fracking across the state and demonstrates how both the federal and state governments are ignoring the climate crisis. The Morrison Government plans to use $5 million of taxpayer funds to explore for new unconventional shale oil […]

THURSDAY, October 3, 2019: Western Australia’s environmental watchdog has released nearly 7000 public submissions into its inquiry into revised guidelines for greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The submissions were received from industry, conservation groups and individuals. Earlier this year the EPA was forced to withdraw its initial guidelines on GHG emissions after major oil and gas companies led by […]

TUESDAY, October 1, 2019: The oil and gas industry is ramping up its plans to frack across a large swath of WA’s Mid West and Kimberley regions following the lifting by the WA Government of the state’s fracking moratorium. The Waitsia Gas Project near Dongara in the Mid West is among the first project to push its way through the […]